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Federal Priorities:

• Priority: Tell Congress to Reject Jeff Session's Reversal of the Cole Memo
• MJ Justice: The Marijuana Justice Act of 2017 Introduced
• Caucus: Tell Your Congressional Representative: Join the Cannabis Caucus
• Protect Our Progress: Bipartisan Leaders Reintroduce the Respect State Marijuana Laws Act
• Deschedule Marijuana: The Ending Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017

Tell Your State Lawmakers To Put Marijuana On Their 2018 Agenda

2018 Legislation Pending Gubernatorial Action

• Alaska: Industrial Hemp Pilot Program Legislation
• Georgia: Legislation to Expand Medical CBD Access
• Kansas: Industrial Hemp Pilot Program Legislation
• Maryland: Industrial Hemp Expansion Legislation

2018 State Legislation: Legalization

• Timely! New Jersey: Deschedule Marijuana
• Connecticut: Marijuana Legalization Effort
• Delaware: Marijuana Legalization Effort
• Illinois: Legislation to Put Legalization to a Public Vote
• Illinois: Marijuana Legalization Effort
• Minnesota: Marijuana Legalization Effort
• New Jersey: Marijuana Depenalization Effort
• New Jersey: Marijuana Legalization Effort
• New York: Marijuana Legalization Effort
• Rhode Island: Legislation to Put Legalization to a Public Vote
• Vermont: Legislation to Tax and Regulate Marijuana

2018 State Legislation: Decriminalization

• Alabama: Marijuana Decriminalization Effort
• Louisiana: Marijuana Decriminalization Effort
• Maryland: Legislation to Expand Decriminalization Law
• Pennsylvania: Marijuana Decriminalization Effort

2018 State Legislation: Medical

• Timely! New Jersey: Tell Regulators to Put Patients First
• California: Protect Medical Marijuana Patients from Employment Discrimination
• Colorado: Legislation to Protect Medical Marijuana Patients from Employment Discrimination
• Florida: Medical Marijuana Reciprocity Effort
• Illinois: Permit Doctors to Recommend Cannabis in Place of Opioids
• Maine: Legislation to Expand Medical Marijuana Access 
• Nebraska: Medical Marijuana Legislation
• New Hampshire: Legislation to Expand Patient Access
• New Jersey: Legislation to Expand Patient Access
• New Jersey: Let Doctors Decide When to Recommend Medical Marijuana
• New Jersey: Protect Medical Marijuana Patients from Employment Discrimination
• New York: Legislation to Expand Veteran Access to Medical Marijuana
• New York: Let Doctors Decide When to Recommend Medical Marijuana
• New York: Permit Physicians to Recommend Cannabis in Place of Opioids
• Rhode Island: Protect Medical Marijuana Patients from Employment Discrimination
• South Carolina: Medical Marijuana Legislation
• Tennessee: Legislation to Establish Medical Marijuana Access
• Tennessee: Legislation to Regulate Medical Marijuana Extracts
• Tennessee: Medical Marijuana Exemption Bill
• District of Columbia: Legislation to Expand Medical Cannabis Access

2018 State Legislation: Other

• Alaska: Legislation to Seal Past Marijuana Convictions
• Alaska: Legislation to Expand Banking Options to Cannabis Businesses
• Alaska: Seeking Sanctuary State Status for Marijuana Operators
• Arizona: Legislation to Enhance Testing Procedures
• California: Legislation to Automatically Expunge Past Marijuana Convictions
• California: Legislation to Expand Banking Options for Marijuana Businesses
• California: Legislation to make California a Marijuana Industry Sanctuary State
• California: Legislation to Temporarily Lower Cannabis Taxes
• Hawaii: Medical Marijuana Reciprocity Effort
• Idaho: Legislation to Legalize CBD
• Kansas: Legislation to Legalize the Retail Sale of CBD
• Massachusetts: Bill Seeking Sanctuary State Status for Marijuana Operators
• New Hampshire: Bill to Permit Home Cultivation of Medical Marijuana
• New Hampshire: Legislation to Allow Expungement of Certain Marijuana Convictions
• New Jersey: Legislation to Allow Expungement of Marijuana Convictions
• New Jersey: Legislation to Protect Cannabis Consumers from Employment Discrimination
• Oklahoma: Establish the Oklahoma Cannabis Commission
• Pennsylvania: Resolution Urging Congress to Deschedule Marijuana
• Vermont: Legislation to Expunge Past Marijuana Convictions
• Washington: Legislation to Expand Banking Options for Marijuana Businesses

2018 State Legislation: Hemp

• Illinois: Industrial Hemp Expansion Legislation
• Iowa: Industrial Hemp Research Legislation
• Missouri: Legislation to Allow Industrial Hemp Research
• Nebraska: Industrial Hemp Pilot Program Legislation
• Oklahoma: Industrial Hemp Pilot Program Legislation

2018 State Legislation NORML Opposes

• Maine: Oppose Effort to Amend Home Cultivation Quotas
• Missouri: Oppose Unscientific Zero Tolerance DUI Drug Legislation
• New Hampshire: Oppose Additional Possession Penalties
• Oklahoma: Legislative Effort to Preemptively Amend Pending Medical Marijuana Legislation

Additional Federal Efforts:

• New: Protect Legal Marijuana from Federal Interference
• Legalization: The Marijuana Revenue and Regulation Act Introduced (Senate and House Bill)
• Veterans: House Bill Introduced to Expand Veterans’ Access to Medical Marijuana
• Medical: Legislation To Protect Medical Marijuana Patients Pending In Senate (CARERS Act)
• Medical: Bill Seeks to Reschedule Marijuana Under the CSA
• Medical: Remove Federal Restrictions on CBD
• Judicial: Demand That The New US Attorney’s Respect State Marijuana Laws
• Judicial: End Arbitrary License Suspensions For Minor Marijuana Possession (The Better Drive Act)
• Economic: Legislation Pending To Halt Federal Forfeiture Actions Against Marijuana Facilities
• Economic: Legislation Pending To Cease Penalizing State-Compliant Marijuana Businesses Under the Federal Tax Code
• Economic: Support The Secure and Fair Enforcement Banking Act (SAFE Banking Act)
• Economic: Support the State Marijuana And Regulatory Tolerance (SMART) Enforcement Act
• Economic: Support the Sensible Enforcement Of Cannabis Act
• Economic: House and Senate Measures Seek to Protect Marijuana Businesses and Consumers
• Economic: The Stop Civil Asset Forfeiture Funding for Marijuana Suppression Act
• Hemp: Exclude Hemp From the Controlled Substances Act
• Science: Legislation To Facilitate Medical Marijuana Research
• Advocacy: Tell AAA To Stop Lying About Legalization
• Advocacy: Tell President Trump to Abolish the Office of the Drug Czar
• Advocacy: Tell the ONDCP Opioid Commission: Medical Marijuana as an Alternative

2018 State Enacted Legislation

• Indiana: Legislation to Expand CBD Access
• Utah: Legislation to Allow Medical Marijuana Research
• Vermont: Marijuana Depenalization Effort
• Virginia: Expand State's Medical CBD Law

2018 State Tabled / Defeated Legislation

• Arizona: Legislation to Decriminalize Marijuana
• Arizona: Legislation to Obtain Sanctuary State Status
• Arizona: Legislation to Put Legalization on the Ballot
• Florida: Legislation to Allow Medical Marijuana Patients Legal Rights In Schools
• Florida: Legislation to Restore Patients’ Rights To Inhale Medical Marijuana
• Florida: Marijuana Decriminalization Effort
• Georgia: Legislature is Considering Decriminalization
• Georgia: Legislation to Expand Medical CBD Access
• Georgia: Legislation to Expand State's Limited Cannabis Oil Program
• Georgia: Legislation to Halt Civil Asset Forfeiture Actions
• Georgia: Marijuana Legalization Effort
• Hawaii: Industrial Hemp Expansion Legislation
• Hawaii: Marijuana Decriminalization Measure Pending
• Hawaii: Marijuana Legalization Effort
• Hawaii: Permit Doctors to Recommend Cannabis in Place of Opioids
• Indiana: Industrial Hemp Pilot Program Legislation
• Indiana: Medical Marijuana Legislation
• Iowa: Bill to Reduce Possession Penalty for First Time Offenders
• Kansas: Marijuana Legalization Effort
• Kansas: Medical Marijuana Legislation
• Kentucky: Marijuana Legalization Effort
• Kentucky: Medical Marijuana Legislation
• Maryland: Legislation To Put Legalization On The Ballot 
• Maryland: Permit Doctors to Recommend Cannabis in Place of Opioids
• Michigan: Bill to Allow Patients to Travel with Medical Marijuana
• Mississippi: Legislation to Decriminalize Marijuana
• Mississippi: Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana
• Mississippi: Marijuana Legalization Effort
• Missouri: Legislation to Put Depenalization on the Ballot
• Missouri: Marijuana Depenalization Effort
• Missouri: Marijuana Legalization Effort
• New Hampshire: Marijuana Legalization Effort
• New Mexico: Legislation to Decriminalize Small Amounts of Marijuana Possession
• New Mexico: Marijuana Legalization Effort
• New Mexico: Permit Doctors to Recommend Cannabis in Place of Opioids
• Tennessee: Legislation to Put Medical Marijuana Question on the Ballot
• Virginia: Legislation to Decriminalize Marijuana
• Washington: Legislation Pending to Permit Home Cultivation
• Washington: Legislation to Obtain Sanctuary State Status
• West Virginia: Legislation to Expand State's Medical Marijuana Law
• West Virginia: Marijuana Legalization Effort
• Wisconsin: Legislation to Allow Licensed CBD Production

Read the Full List of 2017 Approved and Enacted Legislation